{"product_id":"political-aesthetics-9780801448904","title":"Political Aesthetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I suggest that although at any given place and moment the aesthetic expressions of a political system just are that political system  the concepts are separable. Typically  aesthetic aspects of political systems shift in their meaning over time  or even are inverted or redeployed with an entirely transformed effect. You cannot understand politics without understanding the aesthetics of politics  but you cannot understand aesthetics as politics. The point is precisely to show the concrete nodes at which two distinct discourses coincide or connive  come apart or coalesce.\"from Political Aesthetics Juxtaposing and connecting the art of states and the art of art historians with vernacular or popular arts such as reggae and hip-hop  Crispin Sartwell examines the reach and claims of political aesthetics. Most analysts focus on politics as discursive systems  privileging text and reducing other forms of expression to the merely illustrative. He suggests that we need to take much more seriously the aesthetic environment of political thought and action. Sartwell argues that graphic style  music  and architecture are more than the propaganda arm of political systems; they are its constituents. A noted cultural critic  Sartwell brings together the disciplines of political science and political philosophy  philosophy of art and art history  in a new way  clarifying basic notions of aestheticsbeauty  sublimity  and representationand applying them in a political context. A general argument about the fundamental importance of political aesthetics is interspersed with a group of stimulating case studies as disparate as Leni Riefenstahls films and Black Nationalist aesthetics  the Dead Kennedys and Jeffersonian architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666313142325,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801448905","price":60.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801448904.jpg?v=1782427919","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/political-aesthetics-9780801448904","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}